Need some advice please! I went to get my bottle from the cage during a ride today, the cage and some frame came with it! Its a Ribble Deda EM2 bought 07/2011.
1. Does anybody know how long the Ribble Warranty is for alloy frames? (I know to ring and ask but it wont be open until Tuesday, I've also checked the website and cannot find any information anywhere)
2. Would you dare ride this in the meantime? Is it structurally safe?...
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No and no
gaffer tape and a stick , but no not really
That'll polish out no bother...
Put a sticker over it and wear your full face moto lid, but I wouldn't swing a leg over it personally.
I'd still ride that.
My instinct is it would be fine but equally I'm not sure I'd ride it.
You went to get the bottle from the cage ???
Just how big a girl are you?
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I don't think it'll collapse* - I'd probably ride it but I'd also get back to Ribble & see what they say
*(I'm most definitely NOT qualified to comment)
Yea pretty much as described - must have been balanced well! I've done about 10 hours worth of riding with my headphones on in the last week so wouldn't have heard any noises of it 'going'. Prob not the best idea in hindsight!
Any ideas about warranty anybody?
Buy a new one and stick it on the turbo trainer.
Is it a sticker?
I would send a piccie to Ribble. The frame rivnuts have probably not been put in properly and have stressed the material which is very thin. And , no, I wouldn't trust it. it looks like a crack on the upper one as well.
Do not ride it. The down tube is the most stressed tube on a bike frame, and at it's weakest in the centre where you have two ripped out holes.
Warranty, if that fails bin it.
I'm completely reckless, but wouldn't ride that 😯 that's the silly light alloy frame they did. If it is, it's the one most racers used it as a expendable crit frame. If it lasted half a season it was good going. I'd just bin it and move on.
I think that is a dead frame.I would try for a cheap replacement as I bet the warranty isnt over 2 years
No, you'll have a massive stress riser where that crack/rip is.
Ride it until it fails, but it WILL fail. just keep an eye on it.
I give it a month.
Your downtube is under tension not compression and it will most likely be fine for a couple more rides, take a look at slingshot bikes! However it's got two bloody great holes in it so unless you can find a decent sticker the right size for now I'd get a new one.
DT is under both compression and tension. Imagine how the load would change under heavy braking - the forks are trying to tuck under the frame. Tension whilst riding on the flat - no braking.